Verb
(intransitive) To separate off from the main body; to move off to one side (as in troop movements on a parade ground or in an organized retreat, or columns in a procession).
(intransitive) To become separate through peeling.
All the paint had peeled away.
(transitive) To take away from something else.
(intransitive, of an automobile or its driver) To burn out while accelerating and rapidly depart; to peel off, peel out.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgYou can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. Arthur Miller
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. Juliette Binoche
You read a lot of crap about photographic craftsmanship in those days, and technique; but you didnt hear shit about vision. I knew that I had an eye, a gift for seeing where the ripped edges of the world begin to peel away and something else shows through. Elizabeth Hand
Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath. Francesca Lia Block
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. Edward Norton
Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job. Grace Slick